Word: losers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back to the Beach. For all practical political purposes, Rockefeller is finished as a presidential contender-not because he is a loser, but because he no longer has any stomach for the fight. He even seemed disdainful of the battle. As he confided to an aide with all too evident relief after the Washington breakfast: "I never really wanted this anyway." Hours after his withdrawal, Nelson Rockefeller emplaned for a brief vacation at Laurance Rockefeller's hotel on Puerto Rico's Dorado Beach. It was at that opulent retreat, in November 1967, that New York's Governor...
...more resistant is the typical U.S. offender: a failed male youth who wears the outcast labels of slum dweller, minority-group member, school dropout, unsuccessful employee and law violator. Stripped of selfesteem, this loser compensates by hating and hurting life's winners. And the U.S. criminal-justice system all too often reinforces his contempt for society's values. If the suspect cannot afford a skilled lawyer, he is pressured to plead guilty without a trial. For the same crime, different judges hand out wildly disparate sentences...
...hobo simply the American loser, a blot on a successful nation's personnel record? Or is he the last of the rugged individualists, a folk-hero relic of the frontier, a living rebuke to contemporary organization...
...What's wrong with a two-time loser? Richard Nixon first went down to defeat in one of the closest races ever recorded. His second loss was to Governor Pat Brown of California who, at that time, was solidly entrenched and supported by an invincible political machine. Defeat was inevitable. The 1966 congressional elections resulted in Republican victories in both the House and Senate. The results were due in large part to the strenuous campaigning of Nixon through some 30 states in a three-month period. Truly a remarkable achievement for a two-time loser...
...Nixon victory is considered by most Republican Party observers to represent the key victory which the former Vice-President needed to dispel his loser image...